Elisabeth Svendsen Trust

EST Leeds recently made an appeal for kind hearted locals to bring logs and branches for the 17 donkey residents to chew on! You can see the full story on the Yorkshire Evening Post website.

We are so grateful for the wonderful donations received from our very successful Summer Fair, which was a huge help toward our new stable block appeal.

Here at EST we welcome many children with autism who attend for riding therapy with their school friends or families. Of course, we are open to children with special educational needs and disabilities other than autism but I thought I'd tell you about one special little boy who attends our Leeds Centre with his school.

Donkeys from our EST centres are warmly greeted by residents whose faces light up when they see their four-legged friends walk into communal lounges, or even, in the case of less mobile residents, into their bedrooms! Everybody enjoys these special visits, from the most able bodied to the frailest or most withdrawn resident.

As part of National Volunteer Week (1st–7th June), we have launched an appeal today to help find more volunteers to support our centre in Leeds.